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Reference WMO/164329

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High Street

Prestonpans

EH32

Scotland

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Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Serviceman/woman sculpture
Materials:
  • Stone Sandstone
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
  • Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
About the memorial: Created in 'Duddingston stone' by the sculptor William Birnie Rhind and unveiled on the 30th April 1922, it consists of a 7ft tall soldier in the uniform of the Royal Scots atop a 9 foot high pedestal. The front of the pedestal contains the dedication and the remaining three sides the list of 143 WW1 war dead in alphabetical order. A sloping tablet has been added at the front with the names of 40 servicemen killed in WW2. 2022 UPDATE. Seventy-five names have been added to new panels on the wall of the north side of the small square that houses the main monument for WW1 and twelve for WW2. (Legible on photograph). There are seven corrections to the main memorial
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THE GLORIOUS MEMORYOF THE MEN OF THIS PARISH WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY 1914-1918 1939-1945

WW1 J. Aitken T. Aitken M. Allan G. Allison R. Amos D. Anderson G. Anderson R. Anderson J. Arnott W. Arnott W. Baillie P. Baird J. Banks J. Barr A. Baxter T. Bell W. Bell W. Blackley A. Blyth G. Bowes P. Brackenridge A. Brown J. Brown A. Buchanan J. Burns J. Burns W.H.P. Calder W. Clark J. Clelland A. Cochrane M. Condron O.R. Cullen G.R. Cunningham J. Cunningham R.D. Cunningham J. Darroch D. Darling R. Darling W. Darling J. Davie J. Donnachue P. Douglas A. Edgar J. Edmond J. Edmond T. Edmond W. Edmond C. Fairley G. Findlay J. Findlay G. Flockhart T. Forbes A. Fraser A. Fraser A. Fraser P.R. Fraser R. Fraser W. Gilroy J. Gordon P. Gunn J. Hamilton J. Hawthorn T.K. Henderson A. Herriot J. Hewitt C. Horne R. Hulbert C. Hunter C. Inglis J. Inglis G. Jenkins R. Jenkins A. Johnston B. Johnston M. Keenan R. Kelly A. Kennedy P. Lourie A. Lumsden J. Lumsden A. MacFarlane W. Mackie T. Main A.B. Melrose G. Melrose R.M. Millar J. Moodie J. McAulay J. McFarlane D. McGroarty A. McKenzie W.A.S. McKerrell P.H. McKinlay J.J. McLagan R.D. McLean J. McLeod R. McLeod D. McMurdie C. Neilson J. Nisbet R.H. Nisbet S. Nisbet D. Peden J. Porter R.A.L. Purves P. Rafferty T. Rafferty J. Reid A.W. Renwick D. Ritchie G. Ritchie C. Robertson J. Russell G. Samuel W. Samuel A. Scott A. Smith C.R. Smith G.R. Smith J.M. SMith W.J. Smith T. Speirs T. Stevenson J. Stewart D. Stirrat J. Tennant J. Thomson W. Thomson C. Tonner J.C. Vanbeck T. Vevers A. Waddel A. Wallace H.S. Wallace W.E. Wallace J. Waters J.S. Weir D. Williams H.C. Wilson W. Wood W. Yorkston T. Yorkston WW2 A.T. Andrew E.A. Baxter T. Bell * J. Blair W. Clark T. Cassidy P. Commons * D. Currie * J. Donaldson P. Edwards J. Ferguson J. Gauson D. Gay * R. Gorrian J. Harkes J. Hogg T. Ingles J. Kerr N. Kerr H. Laidlaw W. Laidlaw T. Marshall M. Meharry D. McDonald G. P. McKinlay R. McInlay J.D. McLean N. McMillan J. Nisbet T. Ritchie A. Rowan J. Salkeld J. Scott C. Stewart A. Taylor J. Thomson J.C. Thomson R. Thomson J. Turnbull G. Watt (* Later Additions)

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